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CHEAP CLERKS, POOR SERVICE Report of First Assistant Postmaster General HItchoock. Makes Several Recommendations Re tarding Salaries and Substations Amount of Money in Dead Letters Increasing Indecent Postal Cards and Other Matter Suppressed. Washington, iec. 2b. in tna an nual report made today First Assistant Postmaster General Hitchcock says that the low salar'es paid clerks in first and second class postoflices are de creasing the standard of efticiency. It is impossible, he says, to induce efll cient men to enter his branch of the service, when the salary to begin with is but $tS00 a year, with no certainty of promotion for perhaps several years. Mr. Hitchcock strongly recommends a, discontinuance of the practice of in stalling postoflices in public buildings devoted in part to other branches of the government service. The best type of ouarterE f r postoflice purposes, he says, is a single large room in a one story building. Much embarrassment has been oc casioned the poBtal authorities to pro vide emergency mail facilities in min ing towns, and Mr. Hitchcock reeom mends an emergency appropriation of $75,000 to meet such requirements. There has been an increase of more than $18,0('0,000 in the amount of do mestic and of more than $5,000,000 in the amount of foreign money orders issued during the year over the year preceding. While the number of undelivered letters which are on their way to the dead letter office during the year was smaller than during the previous year, the number of undelivered letters with valuable enclosures greatly increased. General prosperity of the country is given as one reason; another is the suppression by the department of con cerns using the mails for fraudulent purposes. Mail for such concerns con taining money, money orders and com mercial paper was received at the dead letter office in unusual quantities. Nearly 11 000,000 pieces of mail were received at the dead letter oflice during the year, including 1,668 thai failed of delivery in the Panama canal zone. Over 1,500,000 cases of alleged in decent and scurrilous matter received attention. In the summer the influx of offensive pictorial poit cards became so great as to call for a special order by the department looking to the abate ment of the nuisance. As a result of this order, many thousands of objec tionable cards have been withdrawn from the mails by postmasters and for warded to the department for destruc tion. FLOU'R TRADE MENACED. Puget Sound Mill's Oriental Business Falls 30 Per Cent. Tacoma, Wash., Dec. 28. Accord ing to Superintendent Armstrong, of the Tacoma Warehouse & Sperry Mills company, the boycott in China is prov ing a serious menace to the milling interests of Tacoma. Where years ago full cargoes of flour were being shipped to China and mills were running over time to fill orders, shipments to the Drient have fallen off over 30 per cent and mills are running only part of the time. "The boycott in China has knocked the bottom out of the flour business, as far as eiports are concerned," said Superintendent Armstrong. "Local freight keeps up well but we need for eign shipments. It would be good business policy to get that boycott out of the way as soon as possikle." Kilph Smith agent of the Puget Sound Flouring Mills company, says: "We are shipping less flour than usual to China, and the Imyeott is re sponsible for it. I don't know what else could be the trouble. Home trade keeps up about as usual." Volcano Smothers Savaii. San Francisco, lac. 28. According to the passengers vho arrived yester day on the liner Ventura, the volcano on the Island of Savaii, in the Samoan yronp. is still in vigorous activity. The blaze from the crater at night, it is said, is visible at sea many miles away. The lava has .covered an area of 30 square miles. This niolton flow has filled 11 miles of a deep valley and is heading for the seashore. Na tives whose homes are near the leach are preparing to abandon their houses and cocoanut groves on short notice. Many Horses Fall Dead. New York. ec. 28. Afflicted with spinal meningitis, more than a score of horses dropped dead in the streets of Williamsburg today, and at least half of them succumbed to the disease he fore a veterinary could reach them. Every veterinary surgeon in Williams liurg was called into service, and they were kept busy from before daylight until tonight trying to check the spread of the disease. Up to o'clock one had been called to attend 18 cases. Will Adopt Extreme Measures. St. Petersburg, Dec. 28. After an exciting meeting of the workmen's del egates to the Union of Unions, it was decided to continue the strike and adopt the most desperate measures. AFTER THE OIL BARONS. Missouri Summons W, G. Rockefeller and Six Others. New York, Dec. 2'J. William G. Rockefeller, Bonof William Rockefeller, was, it waB learned yesterday, served Christmas evening with a subpoena to appear at a hearing in the case of the state of Missouri against the Standard Oil company at the offices of Henry Wollman, here January 5. Christmas day is a legal service day, though most holidays are not a proper service time for subpoenas. The service was made as Mr. Rockefeller was stepping into his automobile in front of his residence. Edward T. Bedford, also one of the directors of the Standard Oil company, was served with a subpoena in the same proceedings. Henry Wollman, New York counsel for the state of Missouri in the proceed ings, said yesterday that he thought some of the Standard Oil men were at tempting to evade serv'ce. They are making it very difficult for us," he said, "but we are succeed ing steadily. We have already served seven. Ihe hearing will begin Janu ary 5 and Attorney General Hadleyand I will take the testimony of all the wit nesses we get by that time, and then we will adjourn from time to time to get all of them. It is probable that we will give notice to take depositions in some of the neighboring state", where some of them are now residing tempor arily." BOYCOTT IN ALL PROVINCES. Will Be Continued Until Exclusion Law is Relaxed. New York, Dec. 29. Dr. F. F. Tong, the representative of the Chinese gov ernment who is here to create a public sentiment against the exclusion law, as administered, declared yesterday that there would be no abatement of the boycott in China against American goods jntil the desired change was made. He said that bis most recent advices indicate that the movement of retalia tion had spread to every province of the empire. Everywhere merchants and their customers are working to gether to shut out goods made in the United States. At Tien Tsin, Dr. Tong asserted, mills for the production of cotton and woolen goods have been started, and a flour mill is in operation. Women are heart and soul with the men in tne rjgnt aaginsi American goods. In purchasing powder for their faces the first question they ask is: 'Was it made in America?" If the answer is affirmative, they refuse to buy. 'What we are seeking to accom plish," said Dr. Tong, "is an adjust ment of the law and its administration that will put a slop to the injustice to which Chinese in this country are con stantly subjected." CLAIM FOR STEAMERS. Heirs of Rebel Commodore Revive Civil War Incident. Washington, I 29. Secretary Shaw and 'he United States treasurer are defendants in a suit instituted to- lay in the Federal court here to recover from the government the value of 25 steamboats alleged to have been taken rom James E. Montgomery during the Civil war by men representing them selves to be military officers of the United States. Mr. Montgomery, who is row dead, was a prominent steamboat owner, and ived in St. Louis. The suit is brought by the trustee of the Montgomery es tate, who seeks to recover $250,000 for the heirs. The petition states that Mr. Montgomery opposed secession, but was compelled to cast his lot with the Confederacy, as his property inter ests were chiefly in Mississippi. He became a commodocre in the Confeder ate navy, but was the first Confederate officer to take the oath of allegiance to he United States after the war. He took the oath in the presence of Gener- 1 U. S. Grant, his neighbor, who was he first Federal officer to congratulate dm on his return to the support of the Union. Warships to Santo Domingo. Washington, Dec. 29. The gunboat Paducah left Norfolk today for Monte Cristi. The Navy department has ad- ised Rear Admiral Bradford of her de parture, and that slu will be at his disposal as soon as she arrives in Do minican waters. The I'aducah is a ister ship to the Dubuque, and will be attached to the squadron guarding American interests in the West In- iies. As soon as she can be commis sioned, the cruiser Dixie will be or dered to the West Indies, carrying a strong marine guard. Purchase Oregon City Locks Washington, Iec. 29. When con gress reconvenes after the holidays. Senator Fulton will introduce a bill au thorizing the secretary of war to pur chase the canal and locks at Oregon City, provided they can be had for $600,000. If a higher price is a'ked, his hill authorizes their acquisition by condemnation. There has ben loud clamor for free navigation on the Wil lamette, and this hill is intended to do away with the tolls. Morales Severely Wounded Washington, Iec. 29. The Navy d pacrtment has received a cablegram from Commander Chambers, of the gunboat Nashville, dated Puerto Plata last night, stating that he had been informed from a government sou see that President Morales had been shot aid seriously wounded. SENATORS AIM ATTACK ON TAFT Plan to Kill Him Off as Prospective Candidate for President. This Would.Clear the Way for One of Their Own Number in 1908 Out cry About Canal Salaries Will Be Followed by Crusade Against His Philippine Record. Chicago, Dec. 26. Walter Wellman, in a dispatch from Washington to the Record-Herald, says in part: " 'Taft is next on our list. We're going after him as Boon as congress re convenes next month.' "So said a prominent Republican senator. He added that it was the in tention of the leaders of the senate not only to continue their criticism of Pan ama management, but to take up the administration of Mr. Taft in the Phil ippines and subject it to rigid scrutiny. The meaning of this and of the whole course of the senate toward President Roosevelt and his associates in the ex ecutive branch of the government ifa that the presidential game of 1908 has already opened. There are candidates for the next Republican nomination in the senate, plenty of them, and they are already maneuvering to bowl out all aspirants for the nomination. "Now comes the threat to 'make it warm for Tatf.' It goes without say ing that against the secretary personal ly no one has any harsh feeling. He is everywhere recognized as a man of great ability, of extraordinary sincerity and devotion to the public interest. He is noted also as the cheeriest, most refreshing, sweetest character in the public service at this time. As a man, almost everyone loves him. It is im possible to do otherwise. "But Taft the man, and Taft the probable nominee of the Republicans for president in 1908 as a product and representative of the Roosevelt admin istration, are different, and the schem ing, plotting, maneuvering, intrigue ing, senators would like to cut his comb." FIGHT TO DEATH. Russian Rebels and Troops Clash in Streets of Moscow. Odespa, Dec. 6. Russian soldiery is unable to overthrow the dauntless spirit of the Moscow townspeople, and despite superior arms, enormouus ad vantages in military training and a complete supply of all warlike appli ances, the troops are hardly holding their own. Fighting is now going on in every section of the city, and the dead number hundreds some reports suv thousands and the end is not in sight. A terrible slaughter of revolutionaries too place during Sunday night and early Monday, when the terrorists at tempted to capture the enormous am munition factories held by the soldiers Bv order of General Mistchenko, the famous Cossack chieftain, who is now in command of the garrison, tthe artil lery was instructed to mount rapid fire guns in every window and on the roof so that they would command all ave nues of approach to the storehouses The order was given that these rapid Brers should not be unmarked until the people actually began breaking into the structures. The result was that the mob packed the open street in front when the signal was given to fire. Immediately, as one, all of the wood en shutters fell bat k and withering vol leys poured into the crowds, while the guns on tie roofs were turned on the crowd that had been unable to get into the immediate vicinity. The carnage was something awful, according to pri vate advices received here. Justice Van Dyke is Dead. Oakland, Cal., Dec. 26. After an illness of only 24 hours Justice Walter Van Dyke, of the Supreme court of California died ypsterday afternoon at his residence in East Oakland. The eminent jurist was stricken so suddenly that his life of 82 years had ended al most before there wa a realization that he was ill. Justice Van Dyke was born at Tvre, Seneca county. New York, on October 3, 1823. He was admitted to the bar at Cleveland, O., in 1848, com ing to California across the plains in 1849. Bluejackets Guard Concessions. Shanghai, Dec. 26. The mixed court was reopened Saturday. The German assessor and armed foreign guards were present, but everything was normal. All is quiet today, hut bluejackets and guards are still posted ar und the for eign concessions. There are rumors of another iot to occur tonight, but all precautions have been taken. Reports of Japanese complicity in the recent trouble are generally considered with out foundation. Dowie's Mexican Deal Fails. El Paso, Tex., Dec. 26. Manuel Gonzales, with whom Alexander Dowie was negotiating for the purchase of plantations in Tamaulipas for the Zion colony, has given out a lengthy state ment in which he says Dowie wanted 1 ing time payments and other condi tions, which were rejected. Massacreing Tartars London. Dec. 26. A dispatch to the Evening Standard from Constantinople says that the Turkish consul at Batoum reports that the Armenians are maeaa- creing Tartars at the rate of 503 daily, BATTLE IN MOSCOW. Rebels Receive Reinforcements From Neighboring Cities. St. Petersburg, Dec. 27. The battle in Moscow is still raging, the victory being undecided. Considerable rein forcements for the revolutionists have arrived from the neighboring districts of Yaroslav, Vladimir and Tambov. The loyal troops of the government now in Moscow number 8,000 cavalry and Cossacks, while the infantry regiments there incline toward the revolutionists. The number of killed and wounded in the fighting thus far exceeds 10,000 The artillery and fires lighted by ihs revolutionists have destroyed many blocks of houses, and it is feared that Moscow will be involved in a conflagra tion before the present struggle is over Members of the government are re ported to believe, from information which has reached them, that the Mob cow affair is only a demonstration, and that the decisive battle with the revolu tionists is to be fought in St. Peters burg before many days. In this city and its suburbs and on the frontier of Finland are concealed large quantities of revolutionary arms and ammunition. Eighty thousand laborers are expected to march on the capital from Narva and Reval at the appointed time. At present, howeverr, the city is compara tively quiet. Encounters with strikers in the sub urbs have lately caused the death or injury of several hundred victims. The chief city surgeon. M. Rosen, says he examined the wounded and killed and found among them many schoolboys and young girls. This fact further 'affords proof of the cruelty of the Cos sacks. NO INTERVENTION. Civil War in Santo Domingo No Affair of United States. Washington, Dec. 27. For the pres ent there will not be any interference by the United States in the difficulty1 which has arieen in Santo Domingo. The trouble is regarded by the State de partment officials as entirely an inter nal one, and so long as outside interests are not menaced this attitude of nonin tervention will be maintained. If. however, conditions should change materially and lawless acts should be committed against Americans and American interests, involving the col lection of the Dominican customs by this government, or other violence should occur which, in the opinion of the officials here wouid make it proper for this government to interfere, this step will be taken, and measures adopt ed to quell the trouble. This decision was reached by State department officials during the day and was confirmed at a conference at the white house late this afternoon, in which the president and Secretaries Taft, Root and Bonaparte participated. The cabinet officers remained in the white house until nearly 6 o'clock. The gathering, however, was not called specifically for the purpose of discuss ing matters bearing on the develop ments in Santo Domingo, but to talk over a number of questions which the president was anxious to dispose of preliminary to his departure for an outing of several days in Virginia. SMITH TO BE GOVERNOR. Will Soon Succeed Wright Philip- pine Possessions. Washington, Dec. 27. Despite de nials and assurances recently credited to Governor General Luke E. Wright, there is no longer serious doubt of the administration's purpose to make a change in the head of the Philippine government. James F. Smith, formerly of San Francieco, now a member of the Philippine commission, is the man picked for the success'on aB governor general. His installation in the post is likely to be accomplished in the not distant future. There is high authority for the state ment that American prestige in the islands has waned seriously :n the last ypar. The fact is hardly disputed by those familiar with conditions there. It was recognized by members of the Taft party, some of whom have ex pressed grave concern about it. Abolish Hanging in Jersey. New York, Dec. 27. Aeseniblyniin Berg, of New Jersey, has drafted a bill to abolish capital punishment in that I state, and will go to Trenton tomorrow to ask Governor Stnkes to grant re prieves to all condemned murderers un til the legislature shall have acted on the question. If Governor Stokes ac cedes to the Assemblyman's request, two women, Mrs. Valentine and Mrs. Lotta, and a man awaiting death in the Hackensack jail, and three men under sentences in other county jails, will be given reprieves until well into spring. Big Factory Building Burns. New York, Dec. 27. Five alarms, summoning 32 fire companies and the reserves from nine police precincts, were sent out tonight for a blaze which completely gutted the six-story factory buildings, Nos. 102, 104, lOfiWooster street, entailing a damage estimated at $300,000. Five firemen sustained slight injuries. No one No one wa in the j building when the origin is unknown, was carried. j " ; China Makes Demands. London, Dec. 27. The correspondent of the Morning Post at Shanghai says that the Chinese foreign office ha in- stmcted the Chinese minister at I-on-don to negotiate with the British gov ernment regarding the mixed court dis- pute, to demand the dismissal of the British ambassador, and to insist on j the punishment of the police concerned ' in the recent outbreak. BONES OF KING OF BEASTS. . SKELETONS OF TYRANNOSAURUS HEX AND MAN. Out of the rocks In northern Montana scientists have dug the skeleton of the real King of Beasts. An expedition sent out by the American Museum of Natural History in New York has reported the resurrection of the largest flesh-eating land animal thus far known to the world. This constitutes one of the most remarkable finds In the recent history of paleontology. The curator of the Department of Vertebrate Paleontology of this museum, Pro fessor Henry F. Osborn, under whose direction the expedition was sent out, has conferred upon this newly discovered monster the title "Tyrannosaurus Ilex." In plain English this means the "Tyrant King Saurian," or the King of Tyrant Saurlans. The remains of this denizen of the past are being shipped to New York In a number of carefully made boxes, some of the boxes weighing over two tons. Every bone will be placed in Its proper place In the skeleton, missing hones will be modeled out of plaster of parls, and In a few months the completed skeleton will be placed on exhibition In the halls of the museum, where visitors may come and see what this king of beasts a few million years ago was like. Enough parts of this animal have been found to make It possible to estimate quite exactly what his size was. From the end of his tail to the front of his nose he probably measured abont thirty-nine feet. A drawing showing the comparative sizes of the Tyranno saurus Rex and the human skeleton has been placed on exhibition in the museum. The difference Is shown to be about like that between an ostrich and an ordinary barnyard ben. Mr. Tyrannosaurus was large and strong enough to attack the great three-horned Triceratops, one of the most Interesting of the Dinosaur family, a fine skeleton of which has recently been set up in the National Museum nt Washington. This animal had a skull which projected upward over the neck like a fireman's helmet, and over each eye there was a massive horn directed forward, a third, hut much smaller horn being generally just over the nose. He was about twice the size of an elephant, being upward of twenty-five feet in height. He weighed about ten tons. In the opinion of Pro fessor Osborn and his fellow scientists In the American Museum of Natural History', this gigantic three-horned beast was the prey of the Tyrannosaurus Rex. Scientists will look forward to a study of the character of this newly found monster with the greatest curiosity. ira pairioti$m Edward Rutledge was the youngest of the famous Kutledge family of South Carolina and the brother of that John Rutledge who was the boldest of revo lutionists and pro nounced by Patrick Henry the greatest orator at the first continental con- gress. Edward Rutledge had been a student of law in the Tem ple In Iiondon, re turning to America at the time when the opposition to EDWARD Bl'TLEDGE ,.hiw1a nf the British government was just Incoming formulated. He at once became one of the warmest advocates of armed re- stance to oppression. He was one of the signers of the Declaration of Inde pendence and one of its warmest advo cates. In September, 177ti, he was appoint ed one of a board, with John Adams and Benjamin Franklin, to treat with Lord Howe In reference to the ad miral's proposals for a reconciliation of the colonies and the mother country. They refused to treat, however, ex cept on a basis of American independ ence and the negotiations fell through. After the investiture of Charlestown Rutledge was captured and Imprisoned In St. Augustine for a year. lie was always an uncompromising opponent of the tories and they were glad enough to have him In their power. But Kutledge's loyalty never faltered. He was. after the war. chiefly distinguish ed for his opposition to the slave trade. WHITMAN MEMORIAL. Tablet Heoently Krected to "the ;d (irar Poet." At West Hills, In the township of Huntington, L. I., a tablet has recent ly boon erected at the birthplace of THE UKMORIAI.. Walt Whitman by the Colonial Society of Huntington. It was first proposed to nlace a tablet on the old homestead whore the poet was born and spent his J i i fpa 9mi',-'t wt! i J ' if lftpQ WALt WHITMAN jrAV ISWiCl THt OO0 CRV PotT f JP lf fire started and its early btyhood days, hut this was ol Some insurance jtvted to by the present owner of the ;iroiertv because It was thought It would draw many curiosity seekers and cause annoyance. The memorial has been placed In the highway a few feet from the fence line between the roadbed and the old houe. A big boulder has been pre pared by dressing down one side and to this has been fastened a marble slab, into which the lettering has been deeply cut, the whole making a very appropriate memorial. AH about Whitman's birthplace the country Is extremely picturesque, and the freedom of the life here experi enced undoubtedly had a strong influ ence in shaping the poet's career. In 1836 and 1837 Whitman revisited the vicinity of his birthplace and taught the village school In the neighboring hamlet of Woodbury. The schoolhouse where he taught Is still standing and, while it has outlived Its usefulness, the people of Woodbury have pre served It as a relic, and have erected an up-to-date building for present-day requirements. SENATOR CLARK'S BIG NEW YORK RESIDENCE. The new residence of Senator Will Iain A. Clark, of Montana, in New York City Is one of the largest private homes in America, and, although It repre sents an Immense outlay, it cannot be called a dignified piece of architecture. The Senator Is reputed to have an in come of about $1,000,000 a month, and he cannot claim that the unfavorable effect Is due to financial stringency. The interior, however, is admitted to be exceedingly beautiful, and the Sen ator has spared no effort to make it the most unique and interesting in Gotham. How Kok Slraiua I lie Kyea. Many of the officers of steamships running in this port are afflicted with a new disease, which for want of a better name some of them call the "fog eye." It is an inflammation caused by peering into the fog, and while painful It soon passes away. Captain Higglns and the officers of the United States Fruit Company's passenger and mail steamer Admiral Sampson, which arrived at Lonjj Wharf this morning after n goxl run from Jamaican ports, were among those whose eyes were affected by the fog. Running through fog and trying to distinguish objects when it Is al most Impossible to see a vessel's length away Is a heavy strain on the eyes, and the foi. combined with the heat, produces a smarting sensation. Bos ton Transcript. Honest? of the Modern Kind. "And now. my son," said the bank president, "on this the threshold of your business life 1 desire to Impress one thought upon you. Honesty, ever and always. Is the policy that is best." "Yes. father." said the young man. "And. by the way." appended the gray beard, "I would urge you to read up a little corporation law. It will amaze you to find how many things you can do in a business way and still be honest." Minneapolis Jour nal. t'ollevtlnit m Bad Debt. BJenks Say. Bjones. recommend me ti your tailor, will you? RJones Sure! If you will pay me that $. that you owe me first." Som ervllle Journal. Ies a woman has to complain about the more she complains. When a lamp stands In Its own light It Is time to turn It down. dfflM life iF 'TiirV iSwAulsiDi: